Why "Lipstick" Proved Wrong Shade For NBC
What do you get when you take fabulous women, living glamorous lives, set in The Big Apple, based on a phenomenon with origins in the writings of Candace Bushnell? Not a Sex and the City-esque hit for network television apparently.
NBC has cancelled Lipstick Jungle, one of two Sex clones that premiered pre-Strike, as well as Christian Slater's My Own Worst Enemy. Based on the novel by the same name from Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle was one of the most heavily promoted shows in recent television history and was touted as the heiress apparent to HBO's smash hit Sex and the City, also based on Bushnell's prose.
Much like Cashmere Mafia, ABC and Darren Starr's attempt to recapture the "women-on-top" fantasy of Sex and the City, Lipstick Jungle, was a pisspoor imitation of the haute coture original. What creators of these knock offs didn't realize is viewers didn't fall in love with Carrie and Co. because they had fabulous jobs, wore expensive shoes and screwed like testosterone-enhanced she-bunnies (though that admittedly helped). We fell for them because they were fully-developed, well-drawn characters that we could relate to and root for.
My only hope is that NBC signs Lipstick's breakout star, the brilliantly-sexy All My Children alum Lindsay Price, to a holding deal and gives her a Samantha Who?-type vehicle of her own. That way at least something good can come from this particularly bad shade of lipstick.
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6 August 2008
1 year 17 weeks
IMO if NBC keeps shooting itself in the foot they may as well shut the doors completely. There is little on NBC that is worth watching now IMO and now they are losing another good show. NBC needs to go stand in the corner and look ashamed.
15 September 2008
2 years 9 weeks
Brooke Shields: Lipstick Jungle Isn't Canceled
Monday November 17, 2008
Brooke Shields attends the first annual Kidsfest event at the Urban Zen Center at the Stephen Weiss Studio on November 16, 2008 in New York City.
Buzz up!Despite reports, Brooke Shields says her NBC drama Lipstick Jungle hasn't been scrapped.
"They thought that because My Own Worst Enemy has been shut down that the same thing had happened to us, and it's not true," she told reporters at Sunday's Kidsfest in NYC.
"They're not breaking down the sets," she added. "We're still working. We still have more to do, so it's erroneously presented that we've been canceled, thank God.
"Our bosses are saying, 'You're not canceled, don't worry. We're just trying to figure out how to make this make sense.'"
Shields said fans have already sent in tubes of lipstick to Jeff Zucker, president & CEO of NBC Universal, to show their support.
"It's been insane," she went on. "I think that the public outcry has been crazy, and it's kind of wonderful."
Is she optimistic for the show?
"I actually am," Shields said. "I mean, we're basically No. 1 if you look at DVR. And you look at all that. So the public is watching it.
"The problem that they have is it's not the same day live," she continued. "They just need to figure out how to reconcile advertisers' money because the advertisers don't want you fast forwarding commercials."
See photos of Brooke Shields and the best dressed stars at the 2008 Emmys.
If the show gets canned, she said she'll be heartbroken.
"The family atmosphere and the excitement of being all together and working -- that's the perk," she said. "I think they would be remiss if they decided not to
continue next season."
Co-star Kim Raver (who also denied that the show's been canceled) said she would take the cancellation "really hard.
"The main thing is that me and Brooke and Lindsay [Price] have such a great time, not to sound corny," she said.
She added, "I think on Monday there are emergency meetings as to what's going to go on. But I know the executives are really pushing it and believe in it."
Source: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/brooke-shields-lipstick-jungle-isnt-been-...
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